How To Weld Author: Todd Bridigum | Language: English | ISBN:
076033174X | Format: EPUB
How To Weld Description
About the Author
Todd Bridigum is a welding instructor at Minneapolis Community Technical College. He lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
- Series: Motorbooks Workshop
- Paperback: 208 pages
- Publisher: Motorbooks; 1st edition (August 25, 2008)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 076033174X
- ISBN-13: 978-0760331743
- Product Dimensions: 10.5 x 8.4 x 0.6 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
I am new to welding and have consulted a number of instructional books, and "How to Weld" is, by far, the best of the consumer books I've found. The organization, descriptions, illustrations, and photos are great. Where other books skimp on details, the author provides clear, concise, detailed information. Most of the books I've read have surprisingly little specific information when it gets to actually laying down welds: so much text is usually spent with the (important) preamble of safety and description of the mechanics of getting ready to weld, that only a few pages are actually devoted to welding for any given method. "How to Weld" has far more content in all areas than the other books in this class--each section is larger, has more illustration, and shows many examples. One reason the content is so much greater is that this is a large format book (8 1/2 x 11 inches) with a smaller font while many other books are smaller format with large fonts (and few illustrations, often no color at all).
Pros:
Layout is great: each section [e.g. gas welding, brazing, SMAW (stick), GMAW (MIG), GTAW (TIG), etc] has it's own color-coded tab, so it's easy to navigate to the section of interest.
A picture is worth a thousand words, and this book probably has several hundred full color photos of all aspects of the processes.
Illustrations from the American Welding Society (one of the welding certification agencies) are used to clearly show the characteristics of good and bad welds.
The author has a very effective and informative writing style. He not only describes "how" but also "why" such that the reader can understand the rationale for doing something in a particular way.
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